Library system to get a shorter name

Stumped? Man-on-the-street interviews show no one knew the full name of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, said director Charles Brown. And the name is so clunky that even some library staffers resort to just using the initials PLCMC.

That'll all change next spring when library officials roll out a new moniker: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library.

It'll be the fourth name of the local system since the first library building opened in 1903. Its current name has been in effect since the mid-1940s.